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After Months of Bitter Debate, Senate Passes Landmark Health Bill Republicans delayed the vote until the morning of Christmas Eve, but just after 7 o'clock today, the Senate passed its version of healthcare reform with a bare 60 votes and promptly recessed until next year. President Obama called it a " historic… landmark ," the most important piece of social legislation since the Social Security Act of the 1930's; Republicans called it "a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking of every American." Liberal Democrats are divided over the next step: to help reconcile the Senate and House version s or kill both bills and start over again. Republicans say the fight is not over for them, either. We look at what's next.
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Obama Corrals Conservative Democrats on Capitol Hill President Obama went to Capitol Hill today to meet with Senate Democrats who are beginning work on his $3.6 trillion budget proposal. Adriel Bettelheim is White House correspondent for CQPolitics.com .
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Obama Corrals Conservative Democrats on Capitol Hill President Obama went to Capitol Hill today to meet with Senate Democrats who are beginning work on his $3.6 trillion budget proposal. Adriel Bettelheim is White House correspondent for CQPolitics.com .
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President Obama's Big Earmarks Problem During last year's campaign, Barack Obama promised to cut congressional earmarks by half. But today he said he will sign a $410 billion-budget bill with no less than 8500 pet projects, just to keep the government going. Adriel Bettelheim is White House correspondent for CQPolitics.com .
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The Voting is Over, but the Campaign Continues Women had a major impact on the midterm elections. So did $5 billion in campaign spending. Meantime, Democrats now lead the House while Republicans dominate the Senate, and the politics of division continues on Capitol Hill. We’ll hear how former House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped start an era of gridlock and perpetual campaigning.